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The new day-after NBA reports on referee calls in the final two minutes of close games could generate some strong reactions from the Clippers. Oh, goody probably won't be among them. The severely short-handed Clippers came out on the wrong end of two controversial sequences but persevered Monday night for a 110-105 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center. "It was the wildest two minutes we've had in a while," Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said. Clippers shooting guard J.J. Redick was ejected with 1 minute 6 seconds left after picking up two technical fouls for engaging a referee about Minnesota Coach Flip Saunders' venturing onto the court. The...

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The new day-after NBA reports on referee calls in the final two minutes of close games could generate some strong reactions from the Clippers.
Oh, goody probably won't be among them.
The severely short-handed Clippers came out on the wrong end of two...

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Shabazz Muhammad will have season-ending surgery on the middle finger on his left hand, the latest serious injury the team has suffered this season.
The Timberwolves announced on Saturday Muhammad will have surgery on a...

Mike Conley had 21 points and six assists, Marc Gasol finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the league-leading Atlanta Hawks, 94-88, on Sunday at Memphis, Tenn.
The score was tied at 86 after Mike Scott's three-pointer...

The Lakers (7-16) lost a game they expected to win in late November against the Minnesota Timberwolves, 120-119, at Staples Center.
Instead, Zach LaVine scored a career-high 28 points off the bench, Mo Williams added 25 and Thaddeus Young 22, as the only...

Kobe Bryant passed Michael Jordan on the NBA's all-time career scoring list, then he helped the Lakers win their third in a row with a 100-94 victory over the Timberwolves in Minnesota.
Bryant climbed into third place behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and...

After a brief, two-game winning streak, the Lakers have dropped three straight to fall to 5-16 on the season.
They'll play just three games through Week 7, hosting the Sacramento Kings (11-10) on Tuesday followed by road games on Friday in San Antonio...

The Lakers (3-13) seemed to have control late in the game against the upstart Minnesota Timberwolves (4-10), but they ultimately fell in the final minutes. Here are five takeaways from their 120-119 loss Friday at Staples Center.
1. The Lakers have...

Those "three to four years" Jim Buss gave himself to straighten out the Lakers are shaping up as a timeline to nowhere, except maybe basketball oblivion.
A month into the season, the Lakers are 3-13 and can't even mark time properly.
They lost...

The Clippers extended their winning streak to five games Monday night, defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves, 127-101, at Staples Center.
After trailing by six points early, the Clippers took control of the game in the second quarter and never let up,...

The Clippers just returned from a seven-game, 12-day road trip during which they won a franchise-best six games.
The Clippers, who are 7-2 on the road, host the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Staples Center. They are 4-3 at home.
The...

The Clippers returned from one of the best trips in franchise history with something to prove.
They needed to show they could sustain that kind of success at home.
An entire month had passed with the Clippers somehow posting a far better record...

Tim Duncan and Boris Diaw scored 19 points apiece and the visiting San Antonio Spurs defeated Cleveland for the 10th consecutive time — and got the best of LeBron James again — with a 92-90 victory over the Cavaliers on Wednesday night.
Manu Ginobili...

The Lakers won back-to-back road games against the Atlanta Hawks and Houston Rockets, before getting smashed by the Dallas Mavericks. An overtime loss on Sunday at home to the Denver Nuggets gave the Lakers a 2-2 week -- an improvement after a miserable...

The Lakers (3-12) have struggled through most of the season against top-notch competition, playing teams with winning or even records almost exclusively.
On Friday, the Lakers will host the young, and injured, Minnesota Timberwolves (3-10).
A number...

The Lakers were finally a favorite, drawing the young, struggling and injured Timberwolves, and yet they still couldn't get the win.
After building an 11-point lead in the first half, the Lakers let the Timberwolves score at will. A run spurred...

LeBron James struggled from the start in his first game with Cleveland in four years, and the New York Knicks ruined the megastar's emotional homecoming with a 95-90 victory over the Cavaliers on Thursday night.
James, who returned to the Cavaliers and...

Gordon Hayward made a step-back jumper at the buzzer, one-upping LeBron James and boosting the Utah Jazz to a 102-100 victory over the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City.
Hayward, who had 21 points, broke free of James to...

MINNEAPOLIS — Corey Brewer scored a career-high 51 points and Gorgui Dieng hit a short jumper with 4.6 seconds to play to give the short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves a 112-110 victory over the Houston Rockets on Friday night.
Brewer also had six...

Minnesota Timberwolves 143 - Lakers 107 (end of regulation)
The Lakers simply didn't compete on Friday night, getting blown out early by the Minnesota Timberwolves, 143-107
Minnesota scored 41 points in the first quarter and 74 by the half, building a...